something that puzzles me about reactionaries speaking about north korea or any communist country, is the idea that they have a dictatorship so powerful that people aren’t able to fight against it, movies and spectacles accused as “staged” or “if he/she fails he/she will die with his/her family”. the typical idea of enemies “being weak and uberstrong at the same time”, like damn…if people in dprk were under a dictatorship so brutal as they say, you would hear more about uprisings and strikes more frequently than in USA, are you trying to tell me that the only “efficient dictatorships” are the communist ones? that capitalism isn’t able to keep people like pinochet or hitler more than a couple of decades and with constant revolts and a huge media industry? ok…
Posts headline that says singer they thought was executed is actually still alive without links to any sort of article. When you go to find the article, you realize that a dozen musicians were rounded up and executed, it’s just that SHE wasn’t one of them as it was rumored. Who’s spreading propaganda?
Let me guess, it’s an anonymous source?
Ding ding ding.
https://archive.is/ekfmS
Their source is “a report” from “sources in China.” No names, no positions, no relations to the story in question, none of that pesky journalistic integrity stuff. Just someone told us, trust me bro.
I guess even though reports of her death were discovered to be complete bullshit (by virtue of her being publicly not dead) we’re still expected to believe they’re totally telling the truth about all the rest of the executions? idk how that works.
It’s also worth noting the original story was never retracted or even corrected.
Spinning the most lurid tabloid fiction without a single reference!
Source: Made the entire thing up to libel the DPRK